Improvement in composition of matter for preserving fruits from decay



p .in the county of Suffolk and Commonwealth of Masaet descriptionthereof.

. produced by fungoid vegetation, and that if the eEoRen JAQUES,oraeosroiv, MASSACHUSETTS.

Letters Patent No. 107,690, dated September 27, 1870.

.lMRROVEMENTlN OQMPOSITIO N OF MATTER Foa PRESERVING FRUITS FROM Dec/iv.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of thesame.

I i To all whom it may boiwern:

Be itknown that I, GEORGE items, of Boston,

sachusetts, have invented a new and improved Gomi position of Matter tobe Used in Preserving Fruits .fiomDecay; and that the following is afull and exi My invention is founded upon the recent dis in vegetablephysiology that the rot-ting of fruits is sporesof such fungusescan beprevented from germinating or growing, the fruit can be preserved frompaper. decayfor an indefinite period.

p The nature of my invention consists in producing a paper, which, beingused for wrapping or packing ii'uit intended for transportation or;preservation,ef fectually preserves it from decay.

' I .have discovered that flowers of sulphur, used in the packing offruit,efi"ectually prevent the growth The object of m phur with paper thbe indefinitely pres To make this paper, I mix'the flowers of sulphur,with the pulp of paper, in the r otheriearthy or mineral maper-pnlpwhile in the vats. factnred, in other respects, as in the ordinarymethods.

The paper so produced may be used for wrapping s in the same manner asordinary or pulverized sulphur, same manner as clay o terial is mixedwith pa covery The paper is manu fruits and vegetable Witnesses WILLIAM-A. HAYES, J r., of fungoid vegetation, and arrest fermentation; and p G.E. GRAM.

y invention is so to combine six]- at fruit wrapped in such paper mayerved.'

What I claim as my invention is- The composition of matter, consistingof paper impregnated' with flowers of sulphur, or pulverized sulphur,for the uses and purposes as above described.

GEORGE JA UEs.

